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Subject: Re: General interest in an AS3 -> JavaScript cross-compilation
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Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:23:00 +0100
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From: "Raju Bitter" <rajubitter@googlemail.com>
>How much interest is
> there in the Flex community to have JavaScript generation as a future
> feature in Flex?

I think there is a lot of interest, but also a lot of doubts about its 
future success.
>From what I heard, the problem is not really about the language but about 
the rendering performances.

One of the most talkative community person on this subject is Mike Labriola, 
committers of Apache Flex and technical lead of Spoon, who talked during 
various User Group / Flex shows both about his believes but also about the 
experiments him and his team has already done on the subject.

He is really convincing, and you can for example hear it on this episode of 
the Flex Show (start at 53:50):
http://www.theflexshow.com/blog/index.cfm/2011/12/23/Flex-Summit-Roundtable-The-Flex-Show-Episode-158

A more succint text version on the Spoon blog: 
http://www.spoon.as/2011/flex-forward/

Dimitri k.